History #2

The entire bible is correct because it has no errors in it. Though it may sound outrageous, be have no reason to distrust it. It has never contradicted itself. There are outside sources in the roman empire, including accounts from historians which talk about the events in the bible. There are also geographical places described in the bible which have been found. Everything in the bible is true because nothing has ever proved any of it wrong. There are 5,686 Greek manuscripts in existence today for the New Testament. There are also over 19,000 copies in the Syriac, Latin, Coptic, and Aramaic languages. People have tried to argue that the bible is false but nothing has surfaced that would make the bible wrong about anything.

History #1

If paige really believed that history is pointless, because it is all subjective and changes when the winners write it, then that would mean that we should all study history even more, to find out the truth. But however, history is not written by winners. It is written by people. It is written by people in order to  prepare for the future.  The belief that history is subjective is postmodernism. To deny history is to deny an event. Things happen in the world, and saying that history is subjective, is like saying nothing really happens in the world. You can argue with the reasoning as to why something historical happened, but you cant deny the fact that something historical happened.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Basically, socialism doesn't work because we live in an imperfect world where perfection is unable to be reached. The idea behind socialism is that everything owned by the government. The government is the one in charge of production and distribution of all things. The government regulates everything including health care and the economy. Socialism takes away the people's ambition. It makes it so that the people cannot rise to wealth because they can only work for the government. Socialism implies that the government is the ultimate power and the ultimate ruler over the people that sets the moral laws. The problem with socialism is that it rewards the lazy as much as it rewards the hard working.